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Microsoft Azure CTO: US data centers will soon hit size limits (www.semafor.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Given their AI ambitions, a solution could be building data centers in multiple locations to avoid overloading any one region’s power grid. It would be technically challenging, but it may be necessary, Russinovich told Semafor.

“I think it’s inevitable, especially when you get to the kind of scale that these things are getting to,” he said. “In some cases, that might be the only feasible way to train them is to go across data centers, or even across regions,” he said.

Pretty interesting!